- Test no. 1021 | 1985 season
- Played at Edgbaston, Birmingham
- 15,16,17,19,20 August 1985 (5-day match)
| Australia 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GM Wood | c Edmonds b Botham | 19 | 53 | 45 | 3 | 0 | 42.22 | |
| AMJ Hilditch | c †Downton b Edmonds | 39 | 112 | 71 | 5 | 0 | 54.92 | |
| KC Wessels | c †Downton b Ellison | 83 | 226 | 205 | 8 | 0 | 40.48 | |
| AR Border* | c Edmonds b Ellison | 45 | 157 | 111 | 5 | 0 | 40.54 | |
| GM Ritchie | c Botham b Ellison | 8 | 38 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| WB Phillips† | c Robinson b Ellison | 15 | 55 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 35.71 | |
| SP O'Donnell | c †Downton b Taylor | 1 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| GF Lawson | run out | 53 | 140 | 93 | 7 | 0 | 56.98 | |
| CJ McDermott | c Gower b Ellison | 35 | 69 | 51 | 4 | 0 | 68.62 | |
| JR Thomson | not out | 28 | 55 | 43 | 2 | 1 | 65.11 | |
| RG Holland | c Edmonds b Ellison | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| Extras | (lb 4, w 1, nb 4) | 9 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 113.5 overs) | 335 | (2.94 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-44 (Wood), 2-92 (Hilditch), 3-189 (Border), 4-191 (Wessels), 5-207 (Ritchie), 6-208 (O'Donnell), 7-218 (Phillips), 8-276 (McDermott), 9-335 (Lawson), 10-335 (Holland) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| IT Botham | 27 | 1 | 108 | 1 | 4.00 | |||
| LB Taylor | 26 | 5 | 78 | 1 | 3.00 | |||
| RM Ellison | 31.5 | 9 | 77 | 6 | 2.41 | |||
| PH Edmonds | 20 | 4 | 47 | 1 | 2.35 | |||
| JE Emburey | 9 | 2 | 21 | 0 | 2.33 |
| England 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| GA Gooch | c †Phillips b Thomson | 19 | 48 | 28 | 4 | 0 | 67.85 | |
| RT Robinson | b Lawson | 148 | 393 | 294 | 18 | 0 | 50.34 | |
| DI Gower* | c Border b Lawson | 215 | 452 | 314 | 25 | 1 | 68.47 | |
| MW Gatting | not out | 100 | 214 | 127 | 12 | 0 | 78.74 | |
| AJ Lamb | c Wood b McDermott | 46 | 86 | 62 | 5 | 0 | 74.19 | |
| IT Botham | c Thomson b McDermott | 18 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 257.14 | |
| PR Downton† | not out | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | |
| Extras | (b 7, lb 20, nb 22) | 49 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets dec; 134 overs) | 595 | (4.44 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat JE Emburey, RM Ellison, PH Edmonds, LB Taylor |
| Fall of wickets1-38 (Gooch), 2-369 (Robinson), 3-463 (Gower), 4-572 (Lamb), 5-592 (Botham) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| GF Lawson | 37 | 1 | 135 | 2 | 3.64 | |||
| CJ McDermott | 31 | 2 | 155 | 2 | 5.00 | |||
| JR Thomson | 19 | 1 | 101 | 1 | 5.31 | |||
| RG Holland | 25 | 4 | 95 | 0 | 3.80 | |||
| SP O'Donnell | 16 | 3 | 69 | 0 | 4.31 | |||
| AR Border | 6 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2.16 |
| Australia 2nd innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
| AMJ Hilditch | c Ellison b Botham | 10 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 71.42 | |
| GM Wood | c Robinson b Ellison | 10 | 82 | 51 | 1 | 0 | 19.60 | |
| KC Wessels | c †Downton b Ellison | 10 | 52 | 36 | 1 | 0 | 27.77 | |
| RG Holland | lbw b Ellison | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| AR Border* | b Ellison | 2 | 18 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 11.76 | |
| GM Ritchie | c Lamb b Emburey | 20 | 125 | 102 | 0 | 0 | 19.60 | |
| WB Phillips† | c Gower b Edmonds | 59 | 102 | 90 | 11 | 0 | 65.55 | |
| SP O'Donnell | b Botham | 11 | 40 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 28.20 | |
| GF Lawson | c Gower b Edmonds | 3 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 37.50 | |
| CJ McDermott | c Edmonds b Botham | 8 | 23 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 36.36 | |
| JR Thomson | not out | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 80.00 | |
| Extras | (b 1, lb 3, nb 1) | 5 | ||||||
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| Total | (all out; 64.1 overs) | 142 | (2.21 runs per over) | |||||
| Fall of wickets1-10 (Hilditch), 2-32 (Wessels), 3-32 (Holland), 4-35 (Wood), 5-36 (Border), 6-113 (Phillips), 7-117 (Ritchie), 8-120 (Lawson), 9-137 (O'Donnell), 10-142 (McDermott) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| IT Botham | 14.1 | 2 | 52 | 3 | 3.67 | |||
| LB Taylor | 13 | 4 | 27 | 0 | 2.07 | |||
| RM Ellison | 9 | 3 | 27 | 4 | 3.00 | |||
| PH Edmonds | 15 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 0.86 | |||
| JE Emburey | 13 | 5 | 19 | 1 | 1.46 |
| Match details |
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Toss England, who chose to field Series England led the 6-match series 2-1 |
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Test debut
LB Taylor
(England) Player of the match RM Ellison (England) |
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Umpires
DJ Constant and DR Shepherd |
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Close of play 15 Aug day 1 - Australia 1st innings 181/2 (KC Wessels 76*, AR Border 43*) 16 Aug day 2 - Australia 1st innings 335/8 (GF Lawson 53*, JR Thomson 28*) 17 Aug day 3 - England 1st innings 355/1 (RT Robinson 140*, DI Gower 169*) 18 Aug rest day 19 Aug day 4 - Australia 2nd innings 37/5 (GM Ritchie 0*, WB Phillips 1*) 20 Aug day 5 - Australia 2nd innings 142 (64.1 ov) - end of match |
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Aug 1985 
David Gower runs past a flattened Craig McDermott © Getty Images |
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